Energy Potential of Biogas Production in Ukraine

Oleg Kucher, Taras Hutsol, Szymon Glowacki, Iryna Andreitseva, Anatolii Dibrova, Andrii Muzychenko, Anna Szeląg-Sikora, Agnieszka Szparaga and Sławomir Kocira
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Oleg Kucher: Department of Management, Public Management and Administration, Higher Education Institution “Podillia State University”, 32-300 Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine
Taras Hutsol: Department of Mechanics and Agroecosystems Engineering, Polissia National University, 10-008 Zhytomyr, Ukraine
Szymon Glowacki: Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Warsaw University of Life Sciences-SGGW, Nowoursynowska St., 164, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland
Iryna Andreitseva: Department of Management, Kamianets-Podilskyi Ivan Ohiienko National University, 61 Ogienka St., 32-300 Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine
Anatolii Dibrova: Faculty of Economics, National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, 03-041 Kyiv, Ukraine
Andrii Muzychenko: Faculty of Economics, National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, 03-041 Kyiv, Ukraine
Anna Szeląg-Sikora: Department of Production Engineering, Logistics and Applied Computer Science, Faculty of Production and Power Engineering, University of Agriculture in Kraków, Balicka 116B, 30-149 Kraków, Poland
Agnieszka Szparaga: Department of Agrobiotechnology, Koszalin University of Technology, Racławicka 15-17, 75-620 Koszalin, Poland
Sławomir Kocira: Department of Machinery Exploitation and Management of Production Processes, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Akademicka 13, 20-950 Lublin, Poland

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 5, 1-22

Abstract: Manufacturing and the further utilization of biogas is an efficient way of complementing or replacing primary energy resources. Ukraine has followed the global tendency to substitute fossil energy sources with renewable ones, which particularly includes biogas. Considering the experience of European countries, as well as the potential and needs of Ukraine, the necessity of biogas plant building implies three main factors: obtaining the energy sources, selling agricultural products and by-products of biogas production, and managing the environmental issues surrounding biogas generation. The growth dynamics of biogas plants and their productivity were analyzed for the period of 2012–2019. In doing so, the capacity and potential capabilities of biogas production in Ukraine by means of biological waste and agricultural raw materials were assessed. The article focuses on the importance of resolving the issues of sanitary and technogenic protection in biogas plant building and biogas manufacturing. It also points out the reasons that prevent Ukraine from going forward with biogas projects, as well as the main factors that affect biogas plant viability and efficiency. Based on the statistical data of previous years and regression analysis, the authors calculated the production output and biogas transformation. Herein, the trend model and Excel software were applied.

Keywords: biogas; biogas power plants; biogas waste; agricultural raw material (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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